Social EpidemiologyMedicine and Medical Science

M.D. Professor Naoki Kondo

We study social determinants of health and how to achieve health equity. Social determinants of health at the levels of society and community include income inequality, economic crises, and social capital; and those at individual level include income, educational attainment, occupation, and interpersonal relationships. We have also conducted intervention studies aiming to achieve health equity in the community.

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Research and Education

After Prof. Kondo’s participation in this lab in September 2020, this lab has involved with the following studies.

  1. Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study: the longitudinal study on social determinants of older adults’ health involving over two hundred thousand people living in 60 municipalities in Japan and two regions in other Asian countries.
  2. Social prescribing: Building the close partnerships between medical care and community welfare services and local communities, never to bring patients back to the place which made them sick.
  3. Collaborative studies with business sector and governments: Building social services to reduce health inequality, applying for the latest behavior scientific theories and evidence.
  4. Causal inferences in social epidemiology: Developing statistical methods accurately evaluating the impacts of changing social systems on the health of individuals with diverse social backgrounds.
  5. Planetary health sciences: Collaborative study with multiple disciplines: aiming to achieve a better future harmonizing between the planet, living nature, and human.

Our monograph on healthy ageing, published with WHO　(download: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/279010)

Health in Japan: Social Epidemiology of Japan since the 1964 Tokyo Olympics:

Recent Publications

  1. Haseda M, Takagi D, Stickley A, Kondo K, Kondo N*. Effectiveness of a community organizing intervention on mortality and its equity among older residents in Japan: A JAGES quasi-experimental study. Health Place. 2022;74:102764.
  2. Inoue K*, Watson KE, Kondo N, Horwich T, Hsu W, Bui AAT, Duru OK. Association of Intensive Blood Pressure Control and Living Arrangement on Cardiovascular Outcomes by Race: Post Hoc Analysis of SPRINT Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Mar 1;5(3):e222037.
  3. Nishioka D, Takaku R, Kondo N*. Medical expenditure after marginal cut of cash benefit among public assistance recipients in Japan: natural experimental evidence. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 2021:jech-2021-217296.
  4. Sato K*, Amemiya A, Haseda M, Takagi D, Kanamori M, Kondo K, Kondo N. Post-disaster Changes in Social Capital and Mental Health: A Natural Experiment from the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake. American Journal of Epidemiology. 2020.DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwaa041
  5. Nansai K*, Fry J, Malik A, Takayanagi W, Kondo N. Carbon footprint of Japanese health care services from 2011 to 2015. Resources Conservation and Recycling 2020;152:104525.

Social Epidemiology

Professor：Naoki Kondo
Assistant Professor：Kosuke Inoue, Koryu Sato, Maho Haseda

Email：contact@socepi.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp
URL：https://socepi.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/

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